The Occupy Wall Street Protests At Last

The Central Tenet Of Christianity As It Has Come Down To Us Is That We Are To Reach Out When Our Instinct Is To Pull Inward; To Give When We Want To Take; To Love When We Are Inclined To Hate; To Include When Are Tempted To Exclude.

In The Fullness Of Time, I Suspect That Bigotry Against Homosexuals Will Seem As Repugnant As Racial Prejudice Does Today. Or So One Hopes.

The Past Always Seems Somehow More Golden, More Serious, Than The Present. We Tend To Forget The Partisanship Of Yesteryear, Preferring To Re-imagine Our History As A Sure And Steady March Toward Greatness.

Environmental Concern Is A Little Like Dieting Or Paying Off Credit-card Debt - An Episodically Terrific Idea That Burns Brightly And Then Seems To Fade When We Realize There's A Reason We Need To Diet Or Pay Down Our Debt. The Reason Is That It's Really, Really Hard, And Too Many Of Us In Too Many Spheres Of Life Choose The Easy Over The Hard.

History Tells Us That America Does Best When The Private Sector Is Energetic And Entrepreneurial And The Government Is Attentive And Engaged. Who Among Us, Really, Would, Looking Back, Wish To Edit Out Either Sphere At The Entire Expense Of The Other?